Roanoke Rapids News

Contributed photos/VGCC Participants start the inaugural VGCC Earth Day Fun Run/Walk in the courtyard on the college's Main Campus.

The Rev. Maxine M. Bradley, a Northampton County native, will be the Woman's Day speaker on Sunday during the 11 a.m. worship service at Shilo Baptist Church of Henderson.

An upper level low pressure system impacting weather along much of the East Coast will continue to help produce showers and thunderstorms across central North Carolina Wednesday afternoon, WRAL meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner said.

Slightly cooler and drier air will filter into eastern North Carolina Thursday behind a cold front.

Neal Harold Griffin Jr., 72, of Roanoke Rapids, died May 6, 2012, at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville.